Position open for world golf event

Press, 31 August 1984, Page 30

Position open for world golf event

By

BOB SCHUMACHER

With New Zealand’s most

seasoned woman golfer, Liz Douglas, of Southland, not available for international competition this year, the way is open for a newcomer in the national team to compete in Espirito Santo tournament in Hong Kong in October and November. New Zealand finished second in the biennial world teams’ championship in Geneva in 1982, and Mrs Douglas was a member of that team along with Janice Aranold and Brenda Ormsby, both of Waikato. Misses Arnold . and Ormsby are among the eight golfers who will play in the Lady Status P.G.F. national trial at Shirley tomorrow and Sunday to elect the three for this year’s world event.

Barring any drastic loss of form, they can safely start their bag packing, but the third position might well go to the player who has the best score after 72 holes of stroke competition at the Christchurch club.

Debbie Randell, of Motueka, was the non-travelling reserve in the 1982 Espirito Santo team, but another youthful player, Jan Scandrett, of Otago, was preferred to Miss Randell for the Queen Sirikit Cup international competition in Melbourne in May.

New Zealand had a brilliant team win in that contest, Miss Ormsby taking the individual title, with Miss Arnold equal fifth and Miss Scandrett tenth. Both Misses Scandrett and Randell competed for New Zealand in the Com-

monwealth tournament in Canada last year and again against Australiia in the Tasman Cup. Miss Randell, who was the New Zealand “golfer of the year’) in 1983, has the advantage of finishing fifth last month in the New South Wales women’s 72-hole stroke championship. The other trialists are Karrin Duckworth (nee Young), of Auckland, Shelley Duncan, of Otago, and the Bay of Plenty pair, Jane Little and Cathy Greenbank. Mrs Duckworth and Miss Duncan have been national junior representatives for several years and Mrs Little, the Bay of Plenty No. 1 this year, has made a successful return to topflight golf after first representing New Zealand in the world event in 1964.